Boiler washing-machine.



PATENTED FEB. 25, 1903.

J.'W SEIFERT. BOILER WASHING MACHINE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 17. 1907'.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

m INVENTOH JEHN WfimFERT A YTOHNEYS PATENTED 1 313.25, 1908.

c l/VVE/VTOH J m y W. EEIFEET ATTORNEYS- J. W. SBIFERT. BOILER WASHING MACHINE. APPLIGATION FILED JULY 17.1907

vested cover EAST POINT, GEORGIA.

JOHN W. SElFERT, OF

WASHING-MACHINE.

no. secs-3e.

Specification of Letters l c-tent.

Patented Feb. 25-, 1908.

the county of Fulton and The features embodying the invention are hereinafter described, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a side vieiv of the machine. 2 is a front VlQW of the same. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line of Fig. 2, the top of the body or casing being closed. Fig. 4 is a central vertical section parallel to the plane of the section shown. in Fig. 3, the cover being detached and the clothes-drum shown in elevated position. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section taken througl'l the top portion of the-machine, on line 5-5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a detail View ilhistrating the spring fastenings for holding the door of the clothesdrum closed.

The body A of the machine is constructed of sheet nietal, and preferably rectangular in form. l ithin said body is arranged a tool grate c, and below it an ash-pan a, a smokehole and collar being provided at a point ahove the grate. The body his provided extniorly with handles for convenience in lifting or transporting it. A Wu JGT-lROiCB, or kettle, B, is supported upon the top edge of the body A and provided with a pipe i), see Fig. 5, which extends through the side of the body and is there provided with a dis charge cock l). The bottom of the kettle is semicircular and the sides 'are straight, as

will be understood by reference to Figs. 4 and 5.

The top or cover of the body [i'is hinged to the letter at e and may he turned over to the front to the position indicated by dotted lines, Fig. i, in which position it is self-supporting and is thus adapted to serve as e rece o is for the clothes discharged from the clothes-drum C, when the latter is raised to the position indicated by full lines sig. 4-. In such case the door O of the drum being it pr ets don to. into the ine curved side of the cover A is proy'idd 1th e handle for convenience in ins-nicnleting it. The hinges 3 see Fig. 2, are of the socket 52 1 6 the su'fiicient to sup ort the position without other old.

pintles oi" the two hinges pointing in the some direction, which adapts the cover A" to be detached from the body A hy-shding the former laterally for enough to remove the pintl s fromthe sockets. A clothes-druin C is provided with journals c, c, which upport the drum in normal position Within the kettle B, as shown in Fig. C ne cl thee journals 1,: is squared at the end to edept it for attachment of a crank drum. The periphery of the latter is constructed of woven wire, corrugated as shown. The heads of the drum are conical and pro Vided with perforations to admit Water, and the inner ends of the journals 0,12, enlarged and made concayo-convex ed them to lit upon the drum heads, as sin in Fig. 5.

In place of the 'means exhibited in aforesaid pa tent for removing the kettle and supporting t my the drum from out of the same for the reception and discharge of clothes, it is journaled in the ends of two levers D, which are secured upon the squared ends of a shaft .E arranged in boxes at the front top edge of the body, A. Such levers e e extended heyond the shaft, as shown in Fig. l. and spiral springs F are attached thereto end to the side of the body A. such tension that they will balance the drun'i when the same is empty. They therefore prevent the drum striking too herd. when lowered to the normal position indicated in l t, and they assist materially in raising the drum out of the kettle when the Plug has been efi'ected. I-desirc it to be understood that i: do net restrict myself to this construction and arrangement oi the springs and propose to employ any form or arrangement by'which the same result may be ac complished. A crank G isapplied detachably to one of the squared ends of the sheftll, and by depressing its free end, the levers i) will swing the drum up to the position indi ested in Fig. i. The drum may he orevented from swin "31g too by the sides of the bony A with which stops the levers '1) come into contact hen drum is raised and the springs will shorter ZLL'HIS O-i the layers stops too hard. intact the sorting in n in rec;

so sold position, the door m of the oc-encd, shown in Fig. I

in the elevated drum may he for discharge 0 and upon rotating for rotating the These springs are of 'ent the transverse partitions H, which constitute clothes-carriers, that is to say which are adapted for contact with the clothes in the drum and to carry them around a part of e revolution so that they are successively taken from the bottom of the drum to the top and allowed to fall back' into the water. ilhe'se clothescerriers may be constructed. of per torated motel or other suitable materiel and provided with end flanges by which they are secured by rivets to the conical ends of the drum.

lnorder to prevent the clothes from coniing in contact with the edges olihe woven wire periphery of the drum, the conical heads are provided with'a circular indentation 0", see Fig. 5, such indentation being arranged as close-to the periphery as practicable. The conical ends of the drum are seeured'hy bolts arranged outside the annular indentation c.

The door C" of the drum is provided at its free end. with a cross bar and are sli htly curved outward at their extrernities or automatic engagement with see Fig. 6whose end portions 0, are bent and PI'QIQC'L inward. i

sense pivots a reticulated drum journaled in the? ong arms of the levers, springs attached to the/ said body and connected with the short arms of thesaid levers, the springs bein under constant tension whereby they tend to raise ti a drum and resist its eXtreIneor final movement in openingand closing, the stops (1. applied to t e body in the position indicated, whereby the shorter arms of the levers are adapted for contact therewith when the drum is thrown upward and clitwerd, as shown and described.

The im roved washing-machine, cpmprising a ho low body, a boiler supported therein, a reticulated drum, levers pivoted on the body and the drum being journaled hinged at one side contiguous to the pivots of the levers and adapted to be thrown over to horizontal position in which it is self-supporting, and the drum being adlip ted to swing upward and outwardly over the coyer,'sub stentislly described.

i JOHN V. SElFERT. l i itnesses I J. M. Murine,

JULIAN CLAYTON.

between their free ends, a cover which is 

